Thursday, November 1, 2007

my connection to Madonna

Alex McArthur senior photo
I grew up in the same area (the rural-suburbs north of Philadelphia) and attended the same high school as Alex McArthur, the actor that played Madonna's boyfriend in her "Papa Don't Preach" video. McArthur graduated before I was born, but I probably touched some of the same doorknobs, lockers, and handrails that he did. And he touched Madonna, which is one of my goals in this life. We probably had some of the same teachers, too. (I had the same biology teacher that my mother had, and she is five years older than McArthur.) I am probably the only person in the world who made the effort to post his senior photo online - I went to the local public library, asked to see the yearbooks from 1974-77, and made a copy. He graduated in 1975, twenty-five years before my own graduation.

McArthur in Papa Don't Preach


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